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Caleb Harper @ MIT Better World (London)

LocationThe Institution of Engineering and Technology DescriptionYou are invited to save the date for an evening in celebration of MIT, ou…

Friday
January 13, 2017
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Caleb Harper

Former Director, OpenAg Initiative

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Harper Reed

Former Director's Fellow

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Caleb Harris

Research Assistant

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MIT Launches the Campaign for a Better World

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Kohler + MIT Media Lab: Innovation—for Better

Kohler and the MIT Media Lab share the vision of a better future by, with, and for all.We share the belief that remarkable outcomes can be …

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AI Influencer Awards 2020 | Joy Buolamwini wins Better World Award

Recognizing individuals who demonstrate a real commitment to building a diverse and inclusive tech community and making a Better World

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AI Influencer Awards 2020 | Ramesh Raskar wins Better World Award

Recognizing individuals who demonstrate a real commitment to building a diverse and inclusive tech community and making a Better World

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Record-setting crowd celebrates the MIT Campaign for a Better World at San Francisco’s City Hall

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Power Shift: MIT scientists use machine learning to boost basil flavour

Caleb Harper discusses how machine learning-enabled "food computers" were used to find the optimal conditions to grow basil.

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Whitney Burke

Former Administrative Assistant

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MIT Media Lab @ Mozilla Festival 2012 in London

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WFP brings MIT-developed ‘food computer’ technology to Jordan

The Jordan Times says Caleb Harper's "vision is to provide farmers with knowledge of food, rather than simply the product."

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OpenAg in the News

Below is a selection of recent press coverage and archived press coverage available for download. Boston Globe - April 2019MIT Technol…

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MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.

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Tod Machover, Ramesh Raskar @ WIRED UK London

LocationLondon, UK Description

Thursday — Friday
October 25, 2012 —
October 26, 2012
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MIT Sloan research shows adaptive networks promote better collective intelligence

Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.

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MIT Media Lab at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024

Members of the Media Lab community participated in the 54th Annual Meeting of The World Economic Forum. Watch videos of selected sessions!

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SidPac Presidential Lecture: Prof. Alex Pentland | Science to help build a better world

Prof. Pentland to outline his ideas and thoughts on the topic for the first event of the online series Sydney Pacific Presidential Lectures.

Tuesday
June 16, 2020
7:00pm ET
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Wearable Lab at London Design Festival: Biodesign Here Now 2019

Biodesign—the future of materials, manufacturing, architecture, and fashion.

Thursday — Saturday
September 19, 2019 —
September 21, 2019
10:00am — 8:00pm ET
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MIT Connection Science at Davos World Economic Forum

MIT Connection Science @ Davos 2019Blockchain+AI+Human = MagicCome and learn how innovations from MIT Connection Science and its collaborat…

Tuesday — Thursday
January 22, 2019 —
January 24, 2019
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How MIT's fab labs scaled around the world

Professor Neil Gershenfeld tells MIT News that fab labs are now transitioning from providing access to tools to making the tools themselves.

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Launching the OpenAG Initiative at the MIT Media Lab

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MIT develops tiny magnetic beads that can help control prosthetic limbs better

A recent feature in Designboom highlights research conducted by the Biomechatronics group that describes magnetomicrometry.

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Chinese artist Xin Liu takes us inside her lab-like London studio, where engineering and creativity converge.

Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.

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This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk

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MIT's Spectrum highlights Dr. Canan Dagdeviren in an article titled "Better Conforming Medical Devices"

By John Pavlus Imagine you're a patient being treated for Parkinson's Disease, which causes tremors. The disorder kills brain cells th…

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Ray Stata + MIT Media Lab: A Sustainable Future World

The MIT Media Lab complements and adds to the climate efforts of MIT Climate + Sustainability Consortium (MCSC).By way of the MIT Media Lab…

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The whiz kid building a better cyborg

Because old-school surgical amputation hasn’t kept up with modern-day medicine.

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David Shaw + MIT Media Lab: Sustainable Future Worlds, Health + Wellbeing, and Democracy

The MIT Media Lab is prepared to discover and create new innovations to address the dual challenge of improving our climate through afforda…

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Matej Novak

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Ayush Bhandari receives 2021 President's Award for Excellence in Research from Imperial College London

The President's Awards for Excellence in Research recognize staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research.

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MIT’s Deb Roy analyzes divisions caused by social media-dominated world

In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.

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Inside MIT's Future Factory—60 Minutes

60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.

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Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.

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Better natures

The measure of an invention is how quickly it is snatched from the inventor and bent to the will of society.

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MIT's Sixth Sense Machine Makes Reality Better

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Between Worlds: How do we learn Art & Design in the Digital Age?

Between Worlds was a day-long learning event that explored new methods of teaching art and design in today's hybrid and digital world.

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MIT IoT Seminar Series

The Fall 2020 MIT IoT Seminar Series features world class visionaries presenting their latest work and vision for the future of IoT.

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Thinkers & Makers of a Better Space

To conclude its exhibition of "TECHNOSCAPE The Architecture of Engineers" (October 1, 2022 –April 16, 2023), Museo MAXXI in Rome, Ital…

Saturday
April 15, 2023
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A better nasal swab for Covid-19 testing

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.

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AI-powered food computers designing new ways of growing crops

MIT initiative is producing climate recipes for tastier crops.

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Mitchel Resnick Keynote at World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

LocationVictoria, BC Description

Tuesday
June 25, 2013
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When two heads aren’t better than one

Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.

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New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs

Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.

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Where does your food really come from?

On the BBC’s Follow the Food, OpenAg head Caleb Harper and other experts discuss how technology is transforming our food systems.

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Robot Companion for Better Wellbeing

Globally, depression affects more than 264 million people of all ages, and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several interactive …

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Materials Innovation for Better Living

Lecture by Dr. Jiaxing Huang , Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

Monday
October 1, 2018
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
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Building a Better Economy

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.

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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…

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HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

The MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that …

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Embracing neurodiversity to better understand autism

Using personalized, naturalistic experiments, the Gabrieli lab is pioneering new approaches to neurodevelopmental differences.

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Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake?

New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.

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New Harvest 2018 Conference

The New Harvest cellular agriculture conference will take place July 20 and 21 at the MIT Media Lab.

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This MIT professor is using bee poop to map an invisible world

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Are humans better than AI at detecting deepfakes? It’s complicated.

PhD student Matt Groh speaks with Input Magazine’s Annie Rauwerda about his team's recent research on deepfake detection.

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Closer Worlds

Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…

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The future of agriculture is computerized

Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.

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Labby wants to make milk healthier and cows happier with better sensors

Media Lab spinoff Labby is developing tools to improve the quality of milk and the health of dairy cows.

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MIT Media Lab Impact Report 2023

​​​I am thrilled to present the MIT Media Lab Impact Report 2023-2024. This document is a testament to the pioneering spirit and collaborat…

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Mitchel Resnick

LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research

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MIT Media Lab Spinoff Endor Named Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum

Endor, a predictive analytics startup originating at MIT Media Lab and co-founded by former Media Lab post-doc Dr. Yaniv Altshuler, has bee…

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Gathering 'round the connected table: Crafting tools for a 21st century food system

Building a future food system for everyone takes more than just another food conference.  At this one-day event, we'll dig in to …

Monday
December 10, 2018
8:00am — 5:00pm ET
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Dava Newman becomes director of MIT Media Lab

Dava Newman is a visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space.

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MIT Faculty Speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos

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India has been able to manage complex conversations better than US: Tenzin Priyadarshi

Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.